Manaria Friends

Manaria Friends is adapted from a Gacha Game (one I did not play) so my expectations were low and I'm really only in it for the yuri. Conveniently out of all gacha games adaptions to an anime, it did one thing right, focus in immensely on a small cast of characters and make a good show out of it.

It successfully did that, the two main leads contrast with one another and like each other. The other cast are tack-ons but they feel right as tack-ons. It isn't as if the tack-ons need to have spotlight which so many other gacha game adaptions always force ... into their anime which again is bad, there is never enough time to focus in on the usually large cast of characters in a gacha game so sidelining them is the correct choice.

Story is fun SOL. Music is not memorable nor bad. Animation conveniently is not low budget because it is a short 10 episode run. It never over stayed its place and was just good fun.

This show is a must-watch for those who want to finally see a good gacha adaption that isn't UmaMusume.

So apparently this anime is based off of a game which i haven‘t played so my review comes from a pov of knowing nothing about any context or whatever.

Honestly many people here are criticizing that the anime has a very poor to no story at all and honestly - i agree. The anime felt like it wasn‘t really following any significant point like it‘s just episode after episode after episode but ESPECIALLY because of that i feel like the anime is very chill and relaxing to watch.
If you think about wanting to watch any anime right now which you can have running in the background ... or on a second screen or something while just relaxing, this is probably it.

I don‘t think it‘s a masterpiece or also one of my favorites but i‘d say it‘s a good … which is why i give it a solid 7/10

Ok, so first of all is it Manaria Friends or Mysteria Friends??? Cu'z either way the title doesn't make any sense given that this was taken from a game, and by the looks of it , the game itself it's basically a galge game and what we're watching was the animated version of the game. Not surprising since that producer Cygames with the cooperation with Happinet were mostly in the game business and animation was only secondary to them, it didn't help at all with Sentai Film works on the helm of the production , since what we see was more like a yuri relationship ... between 2 princesses , one a human and the other a half dragon/human, now given that this was an anime based from a game, well, definitely there is no story plot around here, in fact any climax you see here will one way or the other be a train wreck cu'z the story part basically flip flops from Grea avoiding Ann , to Grea wanting Ann, and there is Ann at one point would be this female Stalker to this sweet loving lesbian girl. The sound was just as terrible, cu'z Anne's seiyu Hikasa Yoko doesn't sound like Hikasa Yoko, actually it was Grea who sounded like Hikasa Yoko even though the character's seiyu is Fukuhara Ayaka, it would have been better if Grea's voice was done by Hikasa Yoko and Anne's voice be done by Fukuhara Ayaka...or maybe some one made a fucking mistake where the one's who voices who weren't what the info indicated. Ya know jaz watching this was more like a chore than anything else , in which one would be doing some fanservice hunting than anything else. So without anymore BS, here were my ratings:

Story-Poor 3: It doesn't have any, since the plot was just like something taken by some one who is a backseat player of the game.

Art- Very Good 8: Cu'z of all the eye candy and in fact anybody who give this a 10 to 8 were just into them eyecandy and nothing more, since there is only a one time Grea fanservice here.

Sound-Pathetic 1: Cu'z Grea sounded more like Hikasa Yoko than Fukuhara Ayame and Anne don't sound like Hikasa yoko, somebody made a mistake around here.

Character-Poor3: Cu'z even if it was just Grea and Ann all the way, one would feel like that they're just characters in the game, where they both go in circles.

Enjoyment - Pathetic 1: Watching this is like having sex and as one was about to cum, suddenly something or someone ruins it and all that cum starts to rush back into the backstage.

Overall- Poor 3: You're better off playing the game than watching this. jaz saying.